Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference - Fall 1996 conference in Scranton

Why stay at home in the spring when you can join your friends in one of the nicest small cities in upstate New York? Archivists from all over the mid-Atlantic region will join archivists from around New York State in a program aimed at providing you with intellectual stimulation, as well as interesting tours, challenging workshops, wonderful food, and great times. Saratoga Springs is filled with specialty shops for your shopping pleasure, fine restaurants for your dining enjoyment, and the conference hotel is right downtown, convenient to all these establishments.

Our program includes a number of sessions with topics tied to the history of this corner of New York (horse racing, spas, the Revolutionary War). But you'll find sessions on the latest advances in information technology and in documentation planning, sessions for new archivists and for established professionals, sessions focused on how archives makes a difference in people's lives as well as interesting sessions on the history archives make possible.

This year MARAC will be holding its spring meeting jointly with the Lake Ontario Archives Conference (LOAC), allowing both groups even more contact with their colleagues and more possibilities to exchange information.

We're looking forward to seeing you in May. But if you have any questions about the conference beforehand, don't hesitate to contact us.

Geof Huth, Local Arrangements Co-Chair and LOAC Chair
John LeGloahec, Local Arrangements Co-Chair
Robert Morris, Program Chair, MARAC

Thursday, May 7
8:00 am - 7:00 pm 8:30 am - 4:30 pm 9:00 am - 1:00 pm 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm 9:00 pm - collapse	Registration Full-Day Workshops Tour of Saratoga NHP Tours (various start and end times) Half-Day Workshops MARAC Meetings Coordinating Committee MARAC Membership Development Committee MARAC Outreach Committee, Nominating Committee, Education Committee MARAC Publications Committee, Finding Aids Committee MARAC Finance Committee LOAC General Meeting MARAC Steering Committee Hospitality Suite

Friday, May 8
7:30 am - 6:00 pm 8:30 am - 5:00 pm 8:30 am - 9:30 am 9:00 am - 10:00 am 10:00 am - 10:30 am 10:00 am - 10:30 am 10:30 am - 12 noon 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm 9:00 pm - sleep	Registration Exhibitors Continental Breakfast MARAC State Caucus Meetings New Member Orientation Break Concurrent Sessions Luncheon Concurrent Sessions Tour/Session, Saratoga NHP Break Concurrent Sessions Program and Local Arrangements Committee Meetings Reception Hospitality Suite

Saturday, May 9
7:30 - 11:30 am 8:00 - 9:30 am 10:00 am - 4:00 pm 9:45 - 11:15 am 11:15 - 11:30 am 11:30 am - 1:00 pm	Registration Buffet Breakfast/Business Meeting Tour to Lake George Concurrent Sessions Break Concurrent Sessions

Becky Hammell will discuss her use of records in the Park's archives as well as physical evidence in the Schuyler Mansion to create a new furnishing plan for the mansion. The trip will include a side-trip to the mansion. Tour leader Becky Hammell has an MA in Early American Culture from the Winterthur Program at the University of Delaware. She has served as a curator at several museums, and since 1993 she's been consulting for museums in the northeast. She serves on the board of the Historical Society of Saratoga Springs.

Tour this 1870 casino's gambling and dining rooms, which are not generally open to the public. Upstairs, in the Historical Society of Saratoga Springs, learn to play Faro, one of the most popular card games played by the high-stakes rollers of yore.

With a Yale undergraduate degree, John McKee completed his Master's in Museum Administration at Winterthur. Now in his third year as Director of the Historical Society of Saratoga Springs, he has given himself the challenge of learning as much as John Morrissey and Richard Canfield knew about gambling.

Mike Noonan will describe the purported health benefits and history of about ten springs within town and at the nearby Spa State Park. Cups will be provided so participants can sample the waters. Participants will be transported by van to Spa State Park.

A fourth-generation Saratogian, Mike Noonan is a photographer and amateur historian. Initiated at an early age, Mike is now a firm believer in the efficacy of the waters of Saratoga Springs.

T4: Architecture as Visual Documents: Saratoga Springs Domestic Architecture
Thursday, May 7, 1 - 4:30 pm

Tour leader James Kettlewell will talk about the relationship between paper documents and buildings and how buildings can be "read" as documents. He will point out homes built in High Victorian Gothic, Romanesque Revival and Beaux-Arts Classical styles, and contrast them with some less well known, but nevertheless superb, Craftsman-style bungalows.

Educated at Harvard in art history and museum studies, James Kettlewell recently retired from teaching Art History at Skidmore College and has written a book on architectural ornament. Saratoga Springs: An Architectural History, 1790-1990 is the definitive book on this eternally popular subject.

T5: Saratoga Springs: The Legend and the Lure (Congress Park Walking Tour)
Thursday, May 7, 2:30 - 4:30 pm

Discover what has made this small upstate New York town a draw for tourists since the early 1800s. Once a privately owned park featuring daily concerts, mineral springs, and drink halls, and even a people-powered circular railroad, Historic Congress Park is now owned by the City of Saratoga Springs. While many today think of it as a quiet place for contemplation, records show that this has not always been the case.

Having fine-tuned the art of leading tourist groups when he owned and operated Mike's Guided Tours, Mike R. Peter now performs this service as a program assistant for the Urban Cultural Park Visitor Center. His knowledge of history and his sense of humor are a winning combination.

This version of the battlefield tour is designed to be part of session S5, but anyone is welcome to take the tour. Becky Hammell will discuss her use of records in the Park's archives as well as physical evidence in the Schuyler Mansion in creating a new furnishing plan for the mansion. The trip will include a side-trip to the mansion.

T7: Lake George Village and Outlet Shopping Trip
Saturday, May 9, 10 am - 4 pm

Who wants to go to a conference and do nothing but talk about archives? Not us! And not you! See breathtaking views from this village at the southern end of a long, narrow lake nestled among the hills. Walk around the village park, see Ft. William Henry and the docked steamboats, have a bite of lunch, and then grab a few bargains - anything from Jones NY and Nautica to Dansk - at the outlet village on the way back to Saratoga Springs.

Tour guide Rebecca Gereau haunts the lake more than the village itself, since she is an avid canoeist. She grew up in the Adirondacks and now lives in Glens Falls, where she is assistant curator at the Chapman Historical Museum. She also works in the Bolster photographic collection at the Historical Society of Saratoga Springs.

All workshops have limited enrollments, so register early!
Reminder: If you are not registering for the conference and will ONLY attend the workshops, there is an additional Workshop Registration Fee of $5.00.

W1: Preserving Photographs in a Digital World
Thursday, May 7, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

For the last decade, libraries, museums, universities and commercial stock houses have been experimenting with converting their photo and art archives into digital form. With recent improvements in scanning and storage technologies, these institutions are finding they can cost-effectively capture and store image information in digital form for a wide range of uses. There are, however, many technical aspects to digital imaging that present repositories with difficult and complex choices. There are as yet few codified technical standards for image capture, display, and output, all of which affect the image quality, cost, and ultimately, the success or failure of the entire undertaking. The workshop will start with an introduction to digital imaging and new electronic media. Sources of information about the new technologies will be presented, and strategies and evolving standards concerning the preservation of the new media will be shown. The second half of the workshop will present applications of digital imaging for photographic collections.
Instructor: Franziska Frey, Imaging Scientist, Rochester Institute of Technology/Image Permanence Institute

This basic workshop will cover what materials to collect, how to arrange them, how to prepare a system, the importance of record groups and series, and the physical plant. The session will also include hands-on exercises on how to prepare descriptions of the collections for use and understanding their value for institutions and the researcher.
Instructor: Denis Sennett, S.A., Archivist/Records Manager for the Friars of the Atonement

This workshop is designed to introduce participants to facility planning and design for archival institutions. Participants will learn about preparing and planning for a building project; selecting an architect; the scope of architectural services; roles and responsibilities of the architect, consultants, contractors, and the owner; and the process of a typical architectural project.
Instructors: Connie Brace, Architect, Quinlivin, Pierik & Krause, Syracuse, N.Y.; Chris Ward, Chief Archivist, New York State Archives and Records Administration

The workshop will assist archivists in developing strategies for maintaining archival electronic records based on their individual situations. It will present tried-and-true methods for appraising, accessioning and maintaining electronic records and will include a discussion of future possibilities. Within this context, the instructor also will address collecting responsibilities, technical capabilities, and funding realities.
Instructor: Michelle Arpey, New York State Archives and Records Administration

Archivists use many tools to do their varied work, and the most flexible of those tools are automated databases and Websites, the value of which archivists are beginning to understand more and more. This session will examine innovative ways in which archivists are using these automated tools. Maria Holden will discuss how the New York State Archives and Records Administration is developing an automated collection management system. She will demonstrate how the system will maintain information on preservation and access needs and how those will allow archivists to evaluate those needs more efficiently and accurately. Martha J. Hanson and Mark Weimer will discuss how Syracuse University library has recently begun to use Websites to promote information about and disseminate the ongoing results of grant-funded special collections preservation and access projects. This strategy has heightened awareness and stimulated the use of these materials, as well as enabled project staff to release their results to the research community on an ongoing basis.
Chair: Daniel J. Linke, Assistant Archivist, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
Speakers: Maria Holden, Preservation Administrator, New York State Archives and Records Administration; Martha J. Hanson, Preservation Administrator, Syracuse University Library; Mark Weimer, Curator of Special Collections, Syracuse University Library

S2: We Have Everybody's Record: Evolving Policies and Programs for Preserving Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates

Every state government holds huge numbers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, dating back many decades. Produced for medical and legal purposes, the certificates are also in high demand for genealogy. This session will examine evolving programs for access to and archival preservation of vital records in a state with relatively liberal policies (Maryland) and a state with more conservative policies (New York). A professional genealogist will offer a national perspective on access to birth, marriage, and death certificates.
Moderator/Commentator: James D. Folts, Head, Reference Services, New York State Archives and Records Administration
Speakers: Pamela J. Akison, Chief, Bureau of Vital Records, New York State Department of Health; Patricia V. Melville, Head, Reference Services, Maryland State Archives; Roger D. Joslyn, Certified Genealogist, Fellow American Society of Genealogists

British colonists brought their love of horse racing to the New World. As one of Saratoga Springs' summer attractions since 1863, racing has enjoyed popularity throughout the mid-Atlantic region since colonial days, yet finding primary resources to document the sport's history can be a challenge. Field Horne will discuss his efforts to develop a manuscripts collection for the first time on the sport of thoroughbred horse racing. Susan Hamburger, historian and archivist, will recount her search in unexpected places for primary sources about horse racing for her dissertation. Lucious Edwards will reveal what he discovered in a collection that documents African Americans' segregated participation in horse racing, steeple chasing, dressage, and fox hunting in Virginia's horse country.
Chair: Gunnar M. Berg, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Speakers: Field Horne, Curator of Collections, National Museum of Racing, "Developing an Archival Collection to Document Horse Racing"; Susan Hamburger, Manuscripts Librarian, Penn State University, "Using Traditional and Unusual Research Collections to Write about Horse Racing"; Lucious Edwards, Archivist, Virginia State University, "Documenting African-Americans in Horse Racing, Steeple Chasing, Dressage, and Fox Hunting in Orange, Manassas, and Culpeper, Virginia, 1930s-1950s"

S4: What Qualifications Do Today's Archivists Need and How Should They Be Educated?

Archivists and employers continue to debate these two related issues, especially as they involve the importance of history, libraries, records management, and, more recently, information technology. In this session two archival educators will explore the history of their training programs, analyze those programs, and explain how archival education and practice both intersect and diverge. A practicing archivist will discuss how to set qualifications for hiring, what to expect from new hires, and how to help our teaching colleagues by providing meaningful experiences for students.
Chair: Phillip B. Eppard, School of Information Science and Policy, University at Albany, SUNY
Speakers: Peter J. Wosh, Director, Archives Program, Department of History, New York University, "New York University's Program in Archival Management and Historical Editing"; Bruce Dearstyne, Associate Professor, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, "The University of Maryland's Archives and Records Management Programs"; Diane Windham Shaw, Special Collections Librarian and College Archivist, David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, "Concerns of a Practicing Archivist"

Two recent documentaries have focused attention on the American Revolution. Held at the Saratoga National Historical Park over 220 years after the battles which forced the surrender of Gen. John Burgoyne and 5,700 British troops, this session will deal with the use of original sources in interpreting military history, period dress, and the architecture of the nearby Schuyler House. Transportation will be provided to the site, so be sure to register early for this session if you intend to go.
Chair: Gina Johnson, Chief of Interpretation, Saratoga National Historical Park
Speakers: Rebecca J. Hammell, Museum Consultant to the Saratoga National Historical Park; Nick Westbrook, Executive Director, Fort Ticonderoga; Joseph M. Thatcher, Supervising Curator, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; John Manbeck, Brooklyn Borough Historian

Although every archivist is familiar with the use historians make of archives to do research, not as many of us are familiar with the innovative ways people have used archival records in educational settings. This session will examine the ways three repositories have used archives to support and enrich education: 1. The steps the National Archives and Records Administration is taking to make many of its archival resources available for formal classroom use and informal learning via the Internet. 2. How the Urban Archives staff at Temple University uses various historical formats to teach elementary and high school students to do research. 3. How Electronic New Jersey, an Internet site created by a collaborative team of high school faculty, librarians, and archivists, provides sources and instructional activities for use by middle school through university level teachers and students.
Chair: Julie Daniels, New York State Archives and Records Administration
Speakers: Edith James, Director, Public Programs, National Archives and Records Administration, "Public Educational Outreach at the National Archives: A Blend of Traditional and Non-Traditional Approaches"; Margaret Jerrido, Head of Urban Archives, Temple University, "Researching Neighborhoods: Instruction through Primary Historical Materials"; Tom Frusciano, University Archivist, Rutgers University Archives, "Electronic New Jersey: A Digital Archive on New Jersey History"

Participants will discuss the effects funded projects have had on institutional programs from national, state and local perspectives. The speakers will spell out the cost of these projects in terms of administrative overhead and the benefits that accrue from grant projects. Do technology grants bring special problems and benefits? Is access to collections improved by grant-funded and technology projects? Does funding drive or subvert normal work priorities? What kinds of projects can you do without a major grant?
Moderator/Commentator: Geri Solomon, University Archivist, Hofstra University
Speakers: Karen Stuart, Automated Operations Archivist, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, "How To Do Things on the Cheap: EAD in Your Archives"; Debra Wall, Information Resources Policy and Projects Division, National Archives and Records Administration, "NARA's Electronic Access Project"; Kay Domine, Assistant Dean of University Libraries for Special Collections and University Archivist, College of William & Mary, "The Virtual Library of Virginia: The View of a Participant in a Multi-institutional Consortium"; Tom Saltzman, Historian/Record Keeper, Town of Hempstead, "The Effects of New York State Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund Grants on Strengthening a Town's Records Management Program"

Archivists and manuscript curators have made great strides toward creating some degree of uniformity in archival description through the use of the MARC AMC format, Stephen Hensen's descriptive standards, and recent efforts to make archival finding aids available on the Web. Participants will discuss the tools that archivists and manuscript curators have created over the last 25 years from the perspective of users. Have new tools and the standardization of archival descriptive practices improved the way researchers gain access to our holdings or do they still just ask their colleagues? Are standardized formats useful to external researchers? Does description at the series and folder level help internal and external researchers find the information they need quickly and efficiently? Can other levels of description be developed that are both practical and useful?
Moderator/Commentator: Susan Malbin, Librarian, Peabody Room, Georgetown Public Library
Speakers: Gerald Zahavi, Professor of History, University at Albany, SUNY, "A Historian Looks at Archival Finding Aids and Creates His Own"; Deborah Wythe, Archivist, Brooklyn Museum of Art, "YOU NEED IT WHEN? Practical Descriptive Strategies for Internal Use"; Christopher J. Cyphers, Ph.D. candidate in History, University at Albany, SUNY, "At the Crossroads: Historical Research and Technology"

S9: You Can't Live with Them, You Can't Live without Them: Fees for Services

Participants will discuss the institution or proposed institution of fees for services, the rationale for fee structures, and the effects of those fees on use. What is a fair and reasonable fee for use? Should archives and manuscript repositories discriminate between researchers and commercial users? If so, how do you structure your fees? What types of fees can be used to support a service program in a private institution and in state government?
Moderator/Commentator: James Corsaro, Librarian, Manuscript Division, New York State Library
Speakers: James Gates, Jr., Librarian, National Baseball Hall of Fame, "Development of a Fee and Service Structure at the National Baseball Hall of Fame"; Robert J. Freeman, Executive Director, Committee on Open Government, New York State Department of State, "Freedom of Information: To fee or not to fee"; Tom Mills, Director of Operations, New York State Archives and Records Administration, "Fees for Records Management Services in New York"

Most archives' staffs are looking for ways to make the collections they administer better known and more accessible to the public they serve. This session will examine the ins and outs of using public television as a means of documenting a community while making its archival holdings better known in the process. A brief excerpt from the recently released documentary on Saratoga Springs, Historic Views of the Spa City, will be shown at the beginning of the session to set the stage for discussion. Panel members and the chair all have been involved with recent PBS projects to document the cities of Saratoga Springs and Troy, N.Y. Participants will discuss technical requirements, access to and care of the collections, public relations, charges, rights, and related issues.
Chair: Stacy Pomeroy Draper, Curator, Rensselaer County Historical Society
Speakers: Steven Dunne, Producer, Community Relations, WMHT, the local public television station; Holly Hallanan, Photo Researcher, Bolster Collection, Historical Society of Saratoga Springs; John McKee, Director, Historical Society of Saratoga Springs; Jean Stamm, Local History Librarian, Saratoga Springs Public Library; Marion Roach Smith, independent writer and writer/narrator for Troy's PBS documentary Historic Views of the Collar City

Many parts of the National Archives and Records Administration became involved during 1996 and 1997 in the Nazi Gold controversy, which reached the headlines of virtually every major newspaper in the world. The "Safehaven" records were among the first to be requested for research on the subject. Then, as increasing attention moved to Treasury Department records, it led to accelerated transfer, declassification, and opening of these records to researchers in search of the real story of the transfer of looted gold into the hands of the bankers of Switzerland during World War II.
Chair: Geraldine N. Phillips, Deputy Assistant Archivist, Office of Records Services, National Archives and Records Administration
Speakers: Greg Bradsher, Manager, Access Programs, NARA; Rebecca Collier, Archivist, Access Programs, NARA; Richard Wood, Manager, Modern Records Programs, NARA

S12: Research Fellowships in Archives: Programs to Recruit Scholars and Experts

Creative scholars can find new insights in old records; technical experts can help improve even well-established archives programs. Yet most archives have not been aggressive in attracting scholars and experts to work at their institutions. This session will explore two different fellowship programs: the National Archives and Records Administration's conservation research fellows program and the New York State Archives Partnership Trust's Larry J. Hackman Research Residency program for advanced researchers. The speakers will discuss the administration and benefits of these two programs.
Moderator/Commentator: Mary J. Dickerman, Assistant Director for External Affairs, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Speakers: Diana Alper Roley, Regional Preservation Coordinator, National Archives and Records Administration; James D. Folts, Head, Reference Services, New York State Archives and Records Administration

S13: The National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the State Historical Records Advisory Boards: Strategic Planning for the Next Decade

Participants will examine the documentary planning process in the MARAC region, exploring the way state planning fits into the wider national plan. They will analyze completed state plans from the points of view of the NHPRC staff, the Commissioners of the NHPRC, and a state historical records advisory board. They also will outline successful strategies for developing a state plan and carrying that plan into effect.
Moderator: Kathleen Roe, Chief of Documentary Heritage Services, New York State Archives and Records Administration
Speakers: Richard Cameron, Assistant Program Director for State Programs, NHPRC, "State Strategic Planning from the Perspective of the NHPRC"; Howard P. Lowell, State Archivist and Records Administrator, Delaware Public Archives, and NAGARA representative, NHPRC, "A Commissioner's View of Strategic Planning at the State Level"; Geoffrey P. Williams, Co-Chair, New York State Historical Records Advisory Board, "Planning for the Next Decade in New York"

S14: Crossing the Threshold: Twenty-first Century Issues in Electronic Records Management

The management of electronic records is receiving increasing attention at all levels of government. Many answers are needed to questions surrounding electronic records creation, maintenance, use, disposition, access, and storage. The panel will address these issues from various perspectives. Alan Kowlowitz will discuss the results of a current project entitled "Models for Action: Practical Approaches to Electronic Records Management and Preservation."
Chair: Sharon Dawes, Director, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, SUNY
Speakers: Alan Kowlowitz, Associate Archivist, New York State Archives and Records Administration; Kenneth Thibodeau, Modern Records Programs, National Archives and Records Administration

The past decade has been marked by continued increases in the number of documents being made available in electronic format on the World Wide Web, many of which are accompanied by finding aids created in electronic format. At the same time we also are witnessing the emergence of electronic publishing projects involving digital conversion of historical documents created on paper. Other approaches are being used to make documentary print publications available to wider audiences through the use of electronic technology. This panel will explore the increasing application of electronic technology to documentary editing projects as we move toward the twenty-first century.
Chair: Roger Bruns, Acting Director, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives and Records Administration
Speakers: Frank Mevers, Director and State Archivist, New Hampshire Division of Records Management and Archives; Robert Rosenberg, Director of the Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers University; Richard Ryerson, The Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society

In recent years some historians have criticized the way historic sites are interpreted. One article, for example, pointed out that the Gettysburg Battlefield goes into great detail about military movements but says nothing about slavery as a cause of the Civil War. This session will examine such contentions and deal generally with the interpretation of historic sites.
Speakers: Dwight Pitcaithley, Historian, National Park Service; David Orr, Archaeologist, National Park Service

S17: From Seneca Falls to New York City: Documenting Women's History in New York State

Many important events and movements in women's history took place in the Empire State. The speakers for this session will examine how well archivists have collected records to document this important movement, what remains insufficiently documented and how best to find these records, and how to use the Internet to make these materials more easily accessible to a wide audience. Chair/Speaker: Lucinda Manning, Archivist/Records Manager, United Federation of Teachers, "Archiving the Second Wave: Saving Women's Movement Records in New York City"
Speakers: Vivien Rose, Historian, Women's Rights National Historic Park, "The Stuff of Women's History: Material Culture and the First Women's Rights Convention in 1848"; Christopher Densmore, Acting Director, University Archives, The University at Buffalo Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo, "Documenting Women's Organizational History in the Niagara Region of New York State"; Sherrill Redmon, Head, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, "Women on the Web: Developing a Web Site for Women's Archival Collections"

Robert C. Morris, National Archives and Records Administration (Chair)
Robert W. Arnold III, NYS Archives and Records Administration
Ron Becker, Rutgers University
John Celardo, National Archives and Records Administration
James D. Folts, NYS Archives and Records Administration
Stacy Pomeroy Draper, Rensselaer County Historical Society
Leonora A. Gidlund, New York City Department of Records and Information Services
Susan Hamburger, Penn State University
Geof Huth, NYS Archives and Records Administration
Brenda Parnes, NYS Archives and Records Administration
Geraldine N. Phillips, National Archives and Records Administration
Whoy Yurn Shang, Forbes, Inc.
Anke Voss-Hubbard, Rockefeller Archive Center
Christine Ward, NYS Archives and Records Administration
Geoffrey P. Williams, University at Albany, SUNY
Deborah Wythe, Brooklyn Museum of Art

Geof Huth, NYS Archives and Records Administration (Chair)
James D. Folts, NYS Archives and Records Administration (Secretary)
Bridget Bower, Ithaca College (Treasurer)
Michelle Arpey, NYS Archives and Records Administration
Dorothy Christiansen, University at Albany, SUNY
James Corsaro, New York State Library
Edward Galvin, Syracuse University
Michelle Henry, Chautauqua County
Linda Kennedy, Town of Amherst
Rodney Obien, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Edward Vermue, SUNY Oswego
Geoffrey P. Williams, University at Albany, SUNY

Geof Huth, NYS Archives and Records Administration (Co-Chair)
John LeGloahec, Rockefeller Archive Center (Co-Chair)
Dick Andress, NYS Archives and Records Administration
Susan Brome, Historical Society of Saratoga Springs
Katherine Chansky, Skidmore College
Dorothy Christiansen, University at Albany, SUNY
Ruth Copans, Skidmore College
Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer, Southeastern New York Library Resources Council
Ellen Fladger, Union College
Albert Fowler, Capital District Library Council
Sharon Gavitt, NYS Archives and Records Administration
Chris Karpiak, NYS Archives and Records Administration
Denis Meadows, NYS Archives and Records Administration
Julie Pavri, Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association
Anke Voss-Hubbard, Rockefeller Archive Center
Vicki Weiss, NYS Archives and Records Administration
Geoffrey P. Williams, University at Albany, SUNY

SPRING 1998 PROGRAM, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY May 7-9, 1998

SPRING 1998 PROGRAM, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY
May 7-9, 1998